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Roles And Occupations Collection

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Captive Audience

Captive Audience
US evangelist Billy Graham addresses a crowd of football supporters at Stamford Bridge, London, during half-time at the match between Chelsea and Newcastle United

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Fleming At Desk

Fleming At Desk
24th March 1958: Ian Fleming, British author and creator of James Bond, at his desk in his study. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Nautical Family

Nautical Family
January 1929: Five brothers are lifeboatmen in Hythe. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Army Mules

Army Mules
1926: The Mounted Pack Battery of mules from Nelson Barracks in Norwich, in training for the Royal Tournament. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Model Aeroplanes

Model Aeroplanes
Members of the RAF at the Model Aeroplane Club at play. (Photo by Crouch/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Circus Clown

Circus Clown
circa 1930: Lulu the clown wearing a traditional costume and make up. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Hillside Sprouts

Hillside Sprouts
3rd June 1957: A farmer hoeing a field of sprouts on the hills at Sudeley, Gloucestershire, England

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: German Police

German Police
September 1928: German police sitting in the back of a truck in Munich, in preparation for a political demonstration. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Wireless Station

Wireless Station
25th February 1930: Men at work at the new wireless station at Baldock. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Lobster Fishermen

Lobster Fishermen
circa 1926: A lobster fisherman cleans his pots in Newlyn, Cornwall. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark
1926: Used as a training ship for boys, the Cutty Sark is seen here moored at Falmouth in Cornwall. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Barbara Cartland

Barbara Cartland
circa 1928: British romantic novelist Barbara Cartland (1901 - 2000) at her desk. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Frank Muir

Frank Muir
26th February 1973: Frank Muir, the British television and radio scriptwriter and entertainer. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Shipyard Worker

Shipyard Worker
circa 1930: A British shipyard worker busy riveting. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Soldiers Cross River

Soldiers Cross River
circa 1900: British soldiers crossing a river during the Boer War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison
circa 1929: Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931), the inventor of the electric light bulb. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Model Pupil

Model Pupil
1927: A robot figure in a school at Fulham, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: It Won't Hurt

It Won't Hurt
1926: A dentist and his dental nurse in the surgery with their equipment, waiting for the first victim. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Happy Cook

Happy Cook
December 1926: Little Mavis may be young but she is great at making Christmas puddings! (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Ello Ello

Ello Ello
May 1927: A British bobby on his beat. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Breathe In

Breathe In
March 1927: A little girl is reassured by a nurse as a doctor listens to her chest with a stethoscope at the Homeless Children's Aid & Adoption Society. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Chaste Kiss

Chaste Kiss
December 1926: A knight in armour steals a kiss from a nun under the mistletoe. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Babes In Arms

Babes In Arms
December 1926: Babies from the City Maternity Hospital being held by the nurses and doctors who had delivered them. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Gun Transport

Gun Transport
May 1927: Soldiers at Camberley demonstrating how to haul a gun by means of a caterpillar tractor. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Tyre Test

Tyre Test
February 1926: Examining the tread of a tyre in the Dunlop factory in Birmingham. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Control Room

Control Room
February 1928: The control room in the Post Office Tube Railway which sends mail under London to and from sorting offices

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Women Barbers

Women Barbers
October 1927: A woman barber in the City of London giving a shave with a cut throat razor to a male client whilst a colleague puts the finishing touches to a haircut

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Seasonal Mail

Seasonal Mail
December 1926: Piling up the Christmas mail at Mount Pleasant sorting office, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Leaping Scots

Leaping Scots
June 1927: Soldiers of the London Scottish brigade runing across a sandy track during training at their camp in Colchester, Essex. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Ratcatcher

Ratcatcher
December 1926: Septuagenarian government ratcatcher Thomas Wellman looking for rats in an overgrown bank. He is armed only with a walking stick. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Nursing Staff

Nursing Staff
March 1926: Nurses from a St Gregory's Homes for orphans. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Sheep Shearing

Sheep Shearing
May 1928: Sheep shearers at work in Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Copper's Cuppa

Copper's Cuppa
June 1928: Policemen enjoying a cup of tea whilst on duty at Epsom Downs on Derby day. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Out On A Limb

Out On A Limb
June 1928: US Coastguard cadets in the rigging aboard the Alexander Hamilton'. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Traffic Police

Traffic Police
February 1929: Police Constable Gordon, the City Police boxing champion directing traffic. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Thatcher At Work

Thatcher At Work
April 1929: A man thatching a roof at Oxshot, Surrey. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Thatchers At Work

Thatchers At Work
April 1929: Men thatching a roof at Oxshot, Surrey. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Statue Cleaners

Statue Cleaners
May 1929: A couple of men cleaning the Quadriga high above Hyde Park Corner, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Station Porter

Station Porter
1929: A porter carrying luggage at Gare du Nord train station in Paris. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: On Accident Duty

On Accident Duty
May 1929: An open topped bus passes ambulance men on road duty in case of crashes. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Big Ben

Big Ben
January 1929: Restoration workers restore the Central Tower of the House of Commons. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Construction Workers

Construction Workers
April 1929: A group of workmen at the Ben Nevis power scheme construction site seen through the end of a large pipe

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Demolition Crew

Demolition Crew
April 1929: Workmen demolish an old London County Council building near Temple, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Up Periscope

Up Periscope
November 1929: A crew member surveying the area through the periscope of the Chilean submarine O'Brien'. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Car Mechanics

Car Mechanics
September 1929: Car mechanics Violet and Evelyn Corderoy at Cobham, Surrey. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Junior Post

Junior Post
September 1929: The oldest postman in Madrid Facundo Baelo delivering some mail to two young Spaniards. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Pet Macaw

Pet Macaw
3rd June 1929: A pet macaw and two baboons on board the Friendship. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Army Convoy

Army Convoy
August 1929: British soldiers on army manoeuvres in Hampshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Pet Monkey

Pet Monkey
3rd June 1929: A pet baboon on board the Friendship. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Barbers Shop

Barbers Shop
August 1929: A hairdresser at work in a city shop. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Strawberry Pickers

Strawberry Pickers
June 1929: A group of strawberry pickers at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Pram Ride

Pram Ride
1926: A group of nurses stroll with their young charges, two or three to a pram, through the grounds of St Gregory's Home, Plymouth. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Milk Round

Milk Round
circa 1930: A milkman leads his horse on his daily milk round. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Modern Telephone

Modern Telephone
May 1929: A woman replacing the handset of a new automatic telephone at the Siemens factory where they are mass-produced. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Herring Catch

Herring Catch
22nd October 1929: Herring fishermen with their catch on the quayside at Inverness, Scotland

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Repairing The Wires

Repairing The Wires
October 1929: Above a platform rooftop a linesman repairs a telegraph line at King's Cross station, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Pot Glazers

Pot Glazers
15th January 1930: Production line workers dipping pots in to a vat of glaze at the Wedgwood pottery, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Fire Practice

Fire Practice
October 1929: A boy jumps out of a window on to a sheet held by firemen and scouts during a fire-drill at Eton College. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Silver Worker

Silver Worker
December 1929: Filing a silver product to achieve a fine finish at the workshop of Messrs Higgins Francis of Newman street. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Working Overtime

Working Overtime
December 1929: Female workers doing overtime in a Midland Bank office at a row of desks. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Silver Workers

Silver Workers
December 1929: A man inspecting a fork pressed in the tool he is holding while an apprentice works on a different stage of production at the workshop of Messrs Higgins Francis of Newman street

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Bread Baking

Bread Baking
1926: A man working at a bakery shelves another loaf of fresh bread. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Meaty Prize

Meaty Prize
1929: Holding a cricket bat, A R W Perks of Chiswick who won a leg of mutton getting his prize from Trowbridge the butchers. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Traffic Cop

Traffic Cop
1929: A polceman on traffic control duty in a quiet street in a southern England town. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Fisher Girls

Fisher Girls
1929: Yarmouth fisher-girls pushing barrels of herring along the quayside using long poles. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Relics Of The Past

Relics Of The Past
December 1928: Decorators prepare an exhibition of antiquities at the Egyptian Galleries in the British Museum, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Hungarian Harvest

Hungarian Harvest
circa 1935: Men and women at work reaping the grain harvest in Hungary. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Milk Sleigh

Milk Sleigh
17th February 1940: A milkman delivering the milk by sleigh because of treacherous snow conditions at Sutton. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Turkey Auction

Turkey Auction
1926: An auction of turkeys taking place at Leadenhall Market, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Down On The Farm

Down On The Farm
20th June 1963: A farmer driving a tractor at a farm in Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire. (Photo by Maeers/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Police Patrol

Police Patrol
18th January 1939: A trio of policemen keep watch on Downing Street in London, from the Horse Guards Parade. Police presence has been strengthened throughout London following several recent bombings

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Two Nurses

Two Nurses
4th June 1929: Two nurses and some young babies at the National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Exercising With Nurse

Exercising With Nurse
4th June 1929: A nurse exercising with a group of children as part of the National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Shooting Fishermen

Shooting Fishermen
circa 1930: Shark hunters at Portland, Dorset pack a rifle into their boat. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Law Is My Shepherd

Law Is My Shepherd
13th April 1931: A policeman supervises a herd of sheep in the street which are being transferred from Hyde Park to Green Park in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Self Denial Week

Self Denial Week
1926: Two Salvation Army ladies with a sign encouraging people to donate money during self denial week. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Steel Foundry

Steel Foundry
July 1937: A man watching molten metal inside the Kryn and Lahy steelworks. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Spring-Clean

Spring-Clean
26th January 1930: Exhibition staff give a prehistoric model its annual clean in the grounds of Crystal Palace in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Prehistoric Animal

Prehistoric Animal
26th January 1930: A prehistoric model at Crystal Palace is dragged from its swampy lair for an annual clean up. The exhibition staff are being helped in their task by some London bobbies

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Oyster Fishing

Oyster Fishing
August 1929: Three girls help the fishermen bring in a haul of oysters off the Whitstable coast. Whitstable is renowned for its oyster fishing, and the season has just opened

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Oyster Catchers

Oyster Catchers
August 1929: Three girls help the fishermen bring in a net full of oysters off the Whitestable coast. Whitstable is renowned for its oyster fishing, and the season has just opened

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Haymaking

Haymaking
August 1929: A farming family making haystacks in a hayfield. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Milk Bar

Milk Bar
1926: Two women working behind the counter of a milk bar. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageRoles And Occupations Collection: Knight Fall

Knight Fall
1953: Anne Crawford (1920 - 1956) as Morgan Le Fay and Stanley Baker (1927 - 1976) as Mordred in the film The Knights of the Round Table directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by MGM



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